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Monday, March 12, 2018

Salvadoran MS 13 gang has killed 27 in Suffolk County, NY state since 2013 'refugee' surge. Some say such accusations are 'racist'-Washington Post...(US political class could end this genocide against US communities in one day by voting to end the William Wilberforce law they passed unanimously in 2008)

Out sprang members of the violent street gang MS-13, armed with baseball bats.

They
attacked three 16-year-old students they suspected of being rivals
before driving off. When police spotted the van in the same neighborhood
the following afternoon and surrounded it at gunpoint, the MS-13
members were in the midst of trying to abduct a fourth.

In his January State of the Union address, Trump recounted the story
of Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens, two Brentwood High students killed by
MS-13 on Sept. 13, 2016.

“Many of these gang members took
advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as
unaccompanied alien minors and wound up in Kayla and Nisa’s high
school,” the president said as the girls’ parents, who had been invited to watch the speech at the Capitol, wiped away tears.

Faced with an influx of scores of unaccompanied minors and an uptick
in gang violence, Brentwood High has been criticized both for doing too
little and too much to address the problem.

A $110 million
federal lawsuit, filed in December by Kayla’s mother, claims
administrators failed to protect her 16-year-old, allowing MS-13 to
create an “environment filled with fear within the school.”

Meanwhile,
a class-action suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union
against the Trump administration alleges the school went too far,
hastily labeling kids as gang members and leading to their wrongful
imprisonment.

“We
can see a gang member coming a mile away,” said Carlos Sanchez, safety
director for the Brentwood Free Union School District. “The problem is
that it’s not against the law to be a gang member, even if they identify
themselves as MS.”

Located
50 miles from Manhattan’s skyscrapers one way and the Hamptons’
oceanfront estates the other, Brentwood High School serves a community
of 60,000 that was once largely Irish and Italian, then Puerto Rican and
now nearly half Central American.

The sprawling school’s
corridors are a maze adorned with inspirational messages like “Look for
Rainbows” and “Believe and Succeed.” Only a few signs on classroom doors
hint at the school’s transformation in recent years.

Brentwood had long been overwhelmingly Hispanic, but the sudden surge in enrollment led to new tensions.

“There
were a lot of Salvadoran people, Salvadoran people we don’t like,” said
Mabel Castaño, a friend of Nisa’s and Kayla’s who said she attended
Brentwood High for 18 months. “Some of them would say they had family
members in MS-13. They’d say, ‘I’m going to get my brother or my uncle
or my cousin on you.’”

First, a former Brentwood student was fatally shot
by the gang in November 2015, police say. Then Brentwood students began
to go missing. A 15-year-old Ecuadoran named Miguel Garcia-Moran vanished one February evening.

Two
months later, Oscar Acosta, a 19-year-old Salvadoran, left home to play
soccer and never returned. And in June 2016, Jose Peña-Hernandez, 18, a
suspected MS-13 member, disappeared, too. Three missing immigrant teens didn’t draw much attention to
Brentwood. But that would change with the killings of Kayla Cuevas and
Nisa Mickens.

Kayla, a basketball player from a Puerto Rican
family, had first clashed with MS-13 two years earlier at Brentwood’s
Freshman Center, where gang members spat on her, stole or broke her
things and taunted her, according to her mother’s lawsuit.

Things
escalated in summer school, when an MS-13 member threatened her with a
knife, then continued to attend Brentwood High, the lawsuit says.

“She
used to tell me, ‘Ma, they are taking over the school. It’s like
they’re everywhere,’” said Evelyn Rodriguez, who has become the face of
MS-13 victims.

Rodriguez said she and her daughter reported the
bullying to school administrators, who promised the knife-wielding
student wouldn’t be allowed back.But when Kayla, 16, who had exchanged
online taunts with MS-13, showed up for classes that fall, he was still
there, the lawsuit alleges.

After a confrontation at Brentwood,
federal prosecutors say, MS-13 put a “greenlight”--or kill order--on
Kayla, and members made a “throat slicing gesture” toward her at school,
the lawsuit says.

A week later, she was walking home one
evening with Nisa, a basketball teammate one day shy of her 16th
birthday, when MS-13 members spotted them and attacked with a machete
and baseball bats, according to prosecutors. The girls were beaten to
death.

“They failed my daughter,” Rodriguez said of school officials.
Brentwood’s principal and the superintendent declined interview
requests. The school district has asked a federal judge to dismiss the
lawsuit as baseless.

Tensions in the school and the community quickly boiled over as
Bloods and Latin Kings banded together to go after MS-13, police said.
Two students told The Post that they were stopped by a car full of
people in red clothing who asked whether they had seen anyone wearing
blue, a color sometimes worn by MS-13. Another had his blue shirt burned
in front of him, school officials announced.

A week after the
murders, while students and teachers mourned the girls at a funeral
parlor, police discovered the remains of Acosta and Garcia-Moran across town. They found ­Peña-Hernandez’s body a month later.

Arrests
of alleged MS-13 members nationwide nearly doubled during Trump’s first
year in office. In Suffolk County, 219 have been arrested since Kayla
and Nisa were killed, according to police.But that crackdown has
led to a backlash from activists and immigration attorneys — in
Brentwood and beyond — who accuse schools of feeding authorities false
or flimsy allegations of gang affiliation against students.

Brentwood
was the only school mentioned by name in the ACLU’s class-action
lawsuit against the Trump administration last year. The suit claimed
Brentwood’s “unsubstantiated allegation of gang affiliation” against an
unaccompanied minor had led to the then-16-year-old’s wrongful arrest
and five-month imprisonment.

Bryan Johnson, the teen’s
immigration attorney, said the information the school passed along to
police, and eventually Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wasn’t just
inaccurate. It may have been illegal. Federal law protects schools from
having to disclose student records, with few exceptions.

“The school let itself be co-opted by law enforcement,” he said.At
a bond hearing, an immigration judge dismissed the gang allegations and
set the teen free. Nearly 30 other local teens have also been released,
but ICE is still trying to deport them, Johnson said. His client is so
afraid to return to Brentwood High, he’s being home-schooled.

But for some in the community, that fear pales in comparison to the specter of more MS-13 slayings.

“They
should be a little more careful in how they are investigating these
kids,” said Barbara Medina, a crime victim advocate. “But everybody is
desperate. They want to get these kids off the streets.”

Of
the six charged with Kayla’s and Nisa’s killings, at least two attended
Brentwood High, according to people close to the case.

“We’re
providing the best, safest environment we can, working with the school
district,” said Suffolk County Police Deputy Inspector John M. Rowan.

Sanchez,
the school district safety director, denied that administrators
improperly passed information to the police. He said Brentwood had
doubled its security since the killings and adopted a more “proactive”
approach.

Timothy
Sini, the Suffolk County district attorney and former police
commissioner who’s made a name for himself combating MS-13, said schools
are in a “tough spot.”

“They are educators and caretakers. They
are not police,” he said.

“But they are with the kids all day long, so
they are often in the best position to see who’s having problems. Who’s
throwing gang signs. Who’s writing things in their notebook that
indicate gang activity.”

Sini said Suffolk County law enforcement shares its criteria for labeling someone a gang member with schools but not the public.

“Some
of it’s obvious. Some of it’s not,” he said. “And this is when
activists get nervous. If a kid is wearing white Adidas, does that mean
he’s a gang member? No, of course not. But the bottom line is that I
could look at a pair of sneakers on a kid right now and tell you whether
it’s an indicator of gang membership. That’s a fact.”Activists
and immigration attorneys say that attitude is dangerous.

Though gang
membership itself is not a crime, accusations can be enough to lead ICE
to again detain an unaccompanied minor.“It’s like the Salem witch trials,” said Johnson, the immigration attorney. “Everything is rumors and gossip.”

Students say the suspicion can be stifling.

One
Salvadoran American honor student at Brentwood said the school allows
students to wear Salvadoran soccer jerseys only on special days, but
even then, she felt too scared. Her younger brother liked Nike Cortez
shoes, she said, but couldn’t wear them “because those are the gang’s
shoe.”

Elvin Brogsdale, 18, a recent graduate, said he’d nearly
been suspended for unwittingly wearing a shirt with an image sometimes
used by MS-13: a grim reaper.

Everyone is so scared, so tense,” he said. “It didn’t used to be like this.”

A
day after the four Brentwood High students were arrested in the
December van attacks, Rodriguez received a phone call. It was a recorded
message from the school district’s superintendent.

“Please know that it is our number-one priority,” he said, “to keep your sons and daughters safe in school.”".....................

Comment: No entity can possibly track what happens to thousands of minors once they've been passed to alleged relatives or foster homes across the country. Attempts to find children are often unsuccessful, alleged relatives won't cooperate, can't be located. What's certain is that US taxpayer dollars are wasted and US communities are killed off.